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Keywords: Thai - Vessantara Jataka, Chapter 9 (Maddi) - Walters 35247 - A T Front.jpg Collecting food in the forest is one of Maddi's daily activities during the family's exile On the day that Vessantara gives the children to Jujaka she is away in the forest To prevent her from hearing the cries of her children and returning home divine beings in the forms of a lion a tiger and a leopard appear and block her path Whereas the tiger and leopard are depicted realistically lions in Thai art are usually represented as stylized mythical beasts ca 1920 1940 Bangkok paints cloth cm 52 5 66 5 accession number 35 247 31737 Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Southeast Asian Art Collection date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Gift from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Southeast Asian Art Collection 2002 place of origin Thailand Walters Art Museum license 2D Vessantara Jataka Thai paintings in the Walters Art Museum Art of Ancient Thailand Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review
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